Grim Stories

About Grim Stories

From ECF Studios, the creators of The Evident Conspiracy Files, comes a new collection of original tales told from the shadows... Welcome to Grim Stories. Created in response to requests from listeners of The Evident Conspiracy Files, this atmospheric fiction podcast brings together our love of mysteries, folklore, history and traditional storytelling — guided by a familiar voice from the ECF universe. Each episode opens another page of Grim’s ancient book, revealing a self-contained gothic tale of conspiracies, murder, missing people, restless spirits and things that should have remained buried. All Grim Stories are original ECF Studios productions. Although the characters and events are fictional, many stories are inspired by real places, historical events, local myths and enduring British legends. Forgotten villages, drowned cities, abandoned railways and ancient landscapes become the foundations for something darker — stories in which history and imagination are woven so closely together that it may not always be clear where one ends and the other begins. Every tale can be enjoyed on its own, but those listening carefully may begin to notice connections between them: recurring symbols, forgotten names, buried bells and clues suggesting that Grim may be telling more than a collection of unrelated stories. Perhaps the tales are not simply being written. Perhaps they are being remembered. With cinematic sound design, immersive narration and an expanding mythology hidden beneath each episode, Grim Stories is best experienced in the dark — and through headphones. Just be careful not to become tangled in the cord should you fall asleep. A new original story will emerge from the shadows each week. Follow the show so you do not miss the next page, and please leave a rating or review to let us know what you think. In a world of AI, Grim stories has been written over the last year by human hands, by the team of story lovers at ECF Studios. We love our dark stories, so we've been working overtime - to bring you 'Grim Stories'... Enjoy! Grim Stories Dark Fiction from the Shadows An original podcast from ECF Studios.

Publisher

ECF Studios

Category

fiction

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

25 Jul 2026

Latest episode

26 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

5 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   26 Sept 2026

   Episode Five: The Whispering Stones of Avebury

   There are places history remembers almost perfectly. Avebury is not quite one of them. The great henge, its stone circles and ancient avenues have been measured, mapped, and argued over for centuries — and no one has ever agreed on exactly how many stones once stood there. In the summer of 1938, draughtswoman Clara Henshaw uncovers one more stone than the site records admit exists. She sketches it. Measures it. Photographs it. By morning, no one else remembers it was ever found — and by midni...

2. 

   13 Aug 2026

   Episode Four - The Last Passenger of the London Necropolis Railway

   There was once a railway built for the dead. Not a metaphor. Not a folk tale. An actual, ticketed, timetabled railway — the London Necropolis Railway — which for decades carried London's coffins and mourners from the capital to Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey. The real service ended when its London terminus was bombed in the Second World War. It never reopened.Officially. In November 1954, railway clerk Arthur Mercer finds a first-class single ticket in his coat pocket. His name is handwritten o...

3. 

   4 Aug 2026

   Episode Three: The Ash Tree at Pendle

   In 1612, ten people were executed following the infamous Pendle Witch Trials. History tells us they were witches. History also tells us they confessed. But history has a habit of favouring certainty over truth. When a county surveyor is sent to remove a colossal ash tree growing on the site of an abandoned Lancashire farm, he expects nothing more than an awkward engineering problem. Instead, he discovers a tree that no one remembers planting... a tree that has stood for centuries, feeding on ...

4. 

   28 Jul 2026

   Episode Two: The Lantern Men of Dunwich

   Once, Dunwich was one of the most important towns on England’s eastern coast. Then the sea began to take it. Street by street, church by church, much of the medieval town disappeared beneath the waves—leaving behind ruined cliffs, drowned legends and stories of noises coming from below the water line. In the winter of 1901, Samuel Harrow arrives in Dunwich to take temporary charge of an isolated lighthouse after its previous keeper vanishes without explanation. His instructions are simple: Ke...

5. 

   25 Jul 2026

   Episode One: The Bell Beneath Blackmere

   There are villages that appear on every map. Villages that appear only on the oldest maps. And then there are places that do not wish to be found at all. When archivist Elias Vale receives a letter written by the mother who vanished from his life decades earlier, it leads him north to Blackmere — an isolated village hidden beyond the marshes, where strangers are questioned about their names, doors are bolted before nightfall, and the ruins of a burned chapel watch silently from the hill. Blac...

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